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Carbon monoxide can affects the body by preventing the hemoglobin in red blood cells from up taking carbon dioxide.

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The answer is false.

When carbon monoxide gets into a persons bloodstream, it does not allow the blood to carry oxygen & as a result it slowly suffocates the person.

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False it prevents red blood cells from taking up Oxygen not carbon dioxide

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